Dear @sajidjavid

It's October & we're still waiting for the promised end-September review of the policy of mass testing healthy children - where is it?

RCPCH called for mass testing to end, stating it interrupts school attendance

With 10.5% absence, this should be a priority
@RCPCHtweets 13/9/21:

"Routine testing of children without symptoms is still interrupting children and teenagers’ school attendance and we do not believe this should continue. Instead, schoolchildren should be tested only if they have symptoms of COVID-19"
Dr Camilla Kingdon, RCPCH:

“We want schools to be enabled to rethink their approach to managing Covid. Children & teenagers need to focus on their education & school attendance must be encouraged without being interrupted by routine testing of asymptomatic children & teenagers"
RCPCH 13/9/21:

"Schoolchildren should be tested only if they have symptoms of Covid-19. At the same time, and as with other infections, they should not go to school if they are unwell.”

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/1…

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